I have finally got most of the pictures up in my gallery (see right hand side menu). I have some earlier pictures to upload, but I will dig these out tomorrow. I will re-add some of the other pictures I had up there this week.
Gallery Update / Blog Update
Filed in Blogz, Foto Gallery, House Build, Moving Home, Site UpdatesPosted by Andy @
February 1st, 2010
It has been a while since I have done anything with the gallery, which is linked to this site (and held on this site). I felt it was time to make some adjustments. Thankfully I remembered what my log in was, so I have deleted all the images, albums and categories, as they were pretty messed up. Coppermine gallery which comes as an add-on with my control panel, is a bit painful to upload, add an album. My first attempts were hap hazard and completely unorganized. I am starting to rebuild the gallery, change the theme and re add photos as I go.
Some photos of the house build are located on there, so check back for updates, as this will take a few days to get most of the House pictures on there, then I will add past photos on there and hopefully get the Categories and Albums right this time.
I have added a page to this blog dedicated to the House build, so any updates will appear here as a short note.
The Slab – House Build Continuum
So it begins. The house is starting to take shape. In another 2 weeks time or so, there will be some form of structure taking shape in an upwardly fashion. See the photo’s below.
The Slab has been poured
Another shot of the Slab
Final Shot of the Slab
Sleeping Ridgebacks
I was going through my many images folders on many backups of backups and came across this little beauty. Sadly the quality is not that good (it was taken on one of my many Nokia phones I have owned over the years). The picture simply illustrates that when a Rhodesian Ridgeback (albeit a Crossed Ridgeback and German Shepherd) wants to cuddle up to you whilst sprawled out on the sofa, you don’t really have much say in the matter.
New Theme 1
Filed in Site UpdatesPosted by Andy @
January 28th, 2010
I have chosen this theme for its clean appearance. The only issue I have at the moment is the Archived items. For some silly reason the text is bold and enlarged, this is something I hope to rectify in the coming days. All other items appear to be ok.
The House
Filed in House BuildPosted by Andy @
January 28th, 2010
Thanks to bluetooth and my trusty nokia e71, here is the latest picture of the house.
stuff
Filed in Computers, General, Life Down Under, Mac Project, Music, Personal Blog, Site Updates, WorkPosted by Andy @
January 28th, 2010
It has been a funny start to the year so far. The house build is starting to take shape. I drove by this afternoon after work and took a few snap shots. So far the footings have been laid out and prepared for the concrete, so hopefully sometime in the next few days, it should be poured and left to dry.
Work has been full on with changes and major repairs. I mentioned that the main domain controller died on its ass the other week and left us high and dry. The so called ability to recover data from backups proved extremely hard work and non eventful. You would think that you would be able to recover the data using Windows own version of backing up and restoring, but oh no. Nothing was corrupted, Windows just decided on being an arse hole. So $200.00 or so later and a small but really useful download, I retrieved what data I could. The previous nights backup failed when the server crashed and yes, it was the only time you would wish this had never happened, everyone who needed their latest data…sadly didn’t get it! So off to a Data recovery expert, who worked remotely from the UK of all places to here in Sydney, resolved the problem with our three Raid Drives. Thankfully the amount of money we paid (lets just say it was rather a lot of money), actually worked.
So with that out of the way, a new server was ordered and delivered last Friday. The Server will go into the rack tomorrow and be worked on until such time I have to kick people off the system so that it can become the Main DC. I am also in the process of revamping one of our older servers. Citrix 2 box has been revamped and 2 more Gig or RAM has been added. This quite nicely runs Server 2008. I am just in the final throws of doing updates and organising for Citrix to be put on.
The Mac that has become my new best friend is still charming me into what it can offer. Thus far I am in the first stages of rebuilding my main web site, although for the past 5 years or so, this has been my only creative and active. Hopefully I can rekindle my creative juices in Music and Photography.
The new thing in my life which takes me away from computers and internet is Golf. The two rounds of golf I had this long weekend proved that it isn’t as easy as it looks. No matter how good youget in WII golf, you will never hit 300 metres in real life if you have never played a real game of golf.
House Building
Well, after a lengthy wait for Westpac to pull their fingers out after stuffing us around for a month, we are back on track for the house to be completed. The time it has taken for this to actually start sees like a lifetime.
The picture below shows the Plumbing and groundwork ready for the Concrete to be poured on Monday (fingers crossed)
The Ground work